OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Clinical Psychology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Global prevalence of depression and elevated depressive symptoms among adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	415
Loneliness and mental health in children and adolescents with pre‐existing mental health problems: A rapid systematic review	65
Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel	54
Investigating the prevalence of anxiety and depression during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in the United Kingdom: Systematic review and meta‐analyses	48
The effectiveness of schema therapy for patients with anxiety disorders, OCD, or PTSD: A systematic review and research agenda	42
A longitudinal investigation of COVID‐19 pandemic experiences and mental health among university students	38
A meta‐analysis of the effects of social‐cognitive training in schizophrenia: The role of treatment characteristics and study quality	37
Regulating digital therapeutics for mental health: Opportunities, challenges, and the essential role of psychologists	25
Child abuse and suicidality in the context of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide: A network analysis	24
Shame, guilt, and suicidal thoughts: The interaction matters	23
Prevention programmes for children of parents with a mood/anxiety disorder: Systematic review of existing programmes and meta‐analysis of their efficacy	23
Addressing anhedonia to increase depression treatment engagement	21
Effectiveness of stress control large group psychoeducation for anxiety and depression: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	20
The relationship between rumination and NSSI: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	17
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) has potential but is not sufficient: How can it better meet the range of primary care mental health needs?	17
Post‐traumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID‐19 pandemic	16
How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms	16
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile‐based health technology for smoking cessation: Mobile Anxiety Sensitivity Program	16
Emotion network density is a potential clinical marker for anxiety and depression: Comparison of ecological momentary assessment and daily diary	15
Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout	15
The effectiveness of brief cognitive analytic therapy for anxiety and depression: A quasi‐experimental case—control study	12
Understanding the experience of rumination and worry: A descriptive qualitative survey study	11
Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post‐traumatic stress disorder	11
ICD‐11 ‘mixed depressive and anxiety disorder’ is clinical rather than sub‐clinical and more common than anxiety and depression in the general population	11
The delayed, durable effect of expressive writing on depression, anxiety and stress: A meta‐analytic review of studies with long‐term follow‐ups	11

Childhood trauma in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A longitudinal study. The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 7 and VIA 11	11
Why would I want to be more self‐compassionate? A qualitative study of the pros and cons to cultivating self‐compassion in individuals with anorexia nervosa	11
Exploring links between social identity, emotion regulation, and loneliness in those with and without a history of mental illness	11
The efficacy of a transdiagnostic emotion regulation skills training in the treatment of binge‐eating disorder—Results from a randomized controlled trial	11
Adult mental health service engagement with patients who are parents: Evidence from 15 English mental health trusts	10
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’	10
Schema therapy with exposure and response prevention for the treatment of chronic anxiety with comorbid personality disorder	10
Bouldering psychotherapy is not inferior to cognitive behavioural therapy in the group treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial	10
The relationship between repetitive negative thinking, sleep disturbance, and subjective fatigue in women with Generalized Anxiety Disorder	10
Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care	10
The relationship between health worry, work distress, and affective symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of hopelessness and helplessness	9
The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale	9
Italian adolescents’ adjustment before and during the coronavirus disease 2019: A comparison between mothers’ and adolescents’ perception	9
Aversive well‐being comparisons in dysphoria and the role of brooding rumination	9
Building an emotion regulation recommender algorithm for socially anxious individuals using contextual bandits	9
Conflicted or close: Which relationships to the deceased are associated with loss‐related psychopathology?	9
Evaluation of a parent‐led cognitive behaviour therapy programme in routine clinical practice: A controlled trial	8
Managing emotions in psychosis: Evaluation of a brief DBT‐informed skills group for individuals with psychosis in routine community services	8
‘Faking it’: Exploring adolescent perceptions of depression (in)authenticity and ‘attention seeking’	8
Affective and cognitive theory of mind in posttraumatic stress, major depressive, and somatic symptom disorders: Association with childhood trauma	8
Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Epistemic injustice amongst clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers: A qualitative thematic analysis study	7
Effects of soothing images and soothing sounds on mood and well‐being	7
The association between OCD and Shame: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	7
Parenting and psychosis: An experience sampling methodology study investigating the inter‐relationship between stress from parenting and positive psychotic symptoms	7
Associations between symptoms of prolonged grief disorder and depression and suicidal ideation	7
Sleep problems and worrying precede psychotic symptoms during an online intervention for psychosis	7
Developmental profiles of schizotypy in the general population: A record linkage study of Australian children aged 11–12 years	7
Cognitive and social cognition deficits in Huntington’s disease differ between the prodromal and the manifest stages of the condition: A scoping review of recent evidence	7
Investigating associations between hoarding symptoms and affective and cognitive empathy	6
A systematic review of measures of adult disorganized attachment	6
Professional perspectives on applying the NICE and British Psychological Society Guidelines for the management of Behaviours that Challenge in dementia care: an e‐survey	6
The effectiveness of third wave cognitive behavioural therapies for children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Cumulative sociodemographic disadvantage partially mediates associations between childhood trauma and schizotypy	6
A comprehensive group‐based cognitive behavioural treatment for blood‐injection‐injury phobia	6
Using supervised machine learning on neuropsychological data to distinguish OCD patients with and without sensory phenomena from healthy controls	6
Attachment styles moderate Theory of Mind differences between persons with schizophrenia, first‐degree relatives and controls	6
How technology can enhance treatment: A scoping review of clinical interventions for anxiety and obsessive‐compulsive spectrum disorders	6
Initial evaluation of a therapist‐supported online cognitive therapy self‐help for patients with taboo obsessions	5
Examining the generality and specificity of gender moderation in obsessive compulsive beliefs: Stacked prediction by correspondence analysis	5
Can attachment predict core and comorbid symptoms of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder beyond executive functions and emotion regulation?	5
Effect of compassion‐focused therapy on self‐criticism and self‐soothing: A meta‐analysis	5
A systematic review and meta‐ethnography to explore people's experiences of psychotherapy for self‐harm	5
Components of emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: The association between psychosis‐proneness and context sensitivity	5
A case series study of compassion‐focused therapy for distressing experiences in psychosis	5
Exploring service user and family perspectives of a Culturally adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) for African‐Caribbean people with psychosis: A qualitative study	5
The mediating role of tolerance for psychological pain in the relationship of childhood trauma to suicidal ideation in individuals with a substance use disorder	5
Exposure to suicide in the family and suicidal ideation in Portugal during the Covid‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of unbearable psychache	5
Applying behaviour change theory to understand the barriers to implementing routine outcome monitoring	5
Sensitivity to being betrayed and betraying others in obsessive compulsive disorder and depression	5